I believe in living with the camera, and not using the camera.
Accomplishing the impossible means only that the boss will add it to your regular duties.
Writers should be read, but neither seen nor heard.
There's no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.
Novels are a kind of experiment in selfhood, for the reader as well as for the author.
I've been blessed with an optimistic disposition, I think.
As a result of manifest destiny, we gutted our resources.
The pride of dying rich raises the loudest laugh in hell.
If you were Catholic, you'd singe the ears of the priest you confessed to.
Little changes can start to make a difference in the world.
Ethanol doesn't burn cleaner than gasoline, nor is it cheaper.
Social distinctions tend to matter only at your own level and above.
Tom Friedman says China is so awesome they make kosher pigs.
I rarely read or buy a book because of a review.
Almost everyone is overconfident--except the people who are depressed, and they tend to be realists.
I want minimum information given with maximum politeness.
Candidates' wives are supposed to sit cheerfully through their husbands' appearances.
You have only one chance to raise your child.
I get a little poetic sometimes. The moonlight does that to me.
There is no concept more generally cherished by publishers than that of the Undeserving Poor.
Men are not conditioned to be less powerful than a woman. It will be the wise woman who realizes this and is sensitive to that issue.
